What is "addictive"

Usage examples of "addictive".

Consequently, an addictive personality would mean that I wanted to become addicted, not just to nicotine, but to heroin and any other addictive substance.

Although nicotine is the most powerful addictive drug known to mankind, it only relates to the speed in which it traps its victims.

After all, everyone knows that smoking is highly addictive, expensive and the No.

After all, we all know how addictive nicotine is and what massive willpower it takes to stop.

Amazingly this revelation hits thousands of smokers who believed they had addictive personalities until they tried Easyway.

Over a century after coca was taxed by the clergy, we still find reports of its satanic influences, and it is just such reports that, blindly cited by later commentators, would help to propagate the myth of coca chewing as a dangerous, addictive habit - a myth that survives to this day.

It was the same argument Freud would use to exonerate himself from blame for the arrival of this new addictive substance.

However, he argued, it was addictive only when injected, and he had never suggested that anyone do this.

He stood by his assertion that cocaine could be useful in the process of weaning opium addicts from their addiction, justifiying this statement by asserting that cocaine would be addictive only to a certain type of weak personality.

As expected, they contained two main components: harmless colourants or flavourings designed to make them look or taste good, and doses of addictive narcotics.

Britain was not keen to legislate against addictive drugs was that it was making vast amounts of money by flogging opium to the Chinese.

Japanese had discovered, as had the British many years before them, that mainland China constituted an almost unlimited market for addictive drugs.

Coca-Cola story, telling of a pharmacological tycoon who invents a soft drink containing a mysterious, addictive stimulant.

Cocaine has a high addictive potential because of the speed with which it blocks the dopamine transporters.

This is the reason why nicotine patches are not addictive while cigarettes, which contain the same quantity of nicotine, are.